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Lol, grab a chair on my lawn to yell at the kids because I'm with you here. At my airline, people act like their suffering through extreme persecution because they can't sport a beard. We had an enlisted dude in my squadron who claimed to be a pagan or something like that, so he could get a beard. Looked like shit.

Twatwaffle...I like that, think I'm going to add that to my vocabulary. Much better that douchesprocket. Cuntwaffle has a nice ring as well.

Lol, I remember when he took over and an old college buddy tanker driver was all geeked about there FINALLY being a non-fighter CSAF. A few weeks later...blues Monday. I sent him a screenshot of the memo saying, yay non-fighter guy...he didn't respond! .

Unknown, just fly with lots of FOs who are doing it and tall about how there are always open spots.

Guys, I've got an idea. Go (re)read the big short and get back to me after. Foolproof!

Mmm Yes, the transition to full on boomer mode is nearly complete.

I'm not sure what he means by LTS, but if he means long term sick/disability (LTD), then $40k/month is certainly not chump change. Our LTD is 50% of your highest 12 months in the last 36 months (plus double 401k contributions, so right now it would be 35% 401k on that 50% sick pay...essentially paying you 401k as if you weren't sick). That would mean he'd have averaged $80k/month for a 12 months stretch, which seems a bit high because that would be $960k/yr. If he's counting 401k contributions in that money, then it would be an average of ~$69k/month, which during that time, may have happened. We had some big earners in around that time, though I think it was a bit later. I think that's when we had a 330 Captain credit north of 500-600 hours in a single month.

After many strategies, I've found that the best method is to simply let her make the decisions. I only show her shit I'm willing to fly...hey babe, they called me for X, yay or nay? She works from home during the week, so if it's anything M-F that gets me home before 4 or 5, she doesn't care at all. I'll fly weekend stuff if it makes sense because it's just another day for us, but I don't miss any events, it's just not worth it. I am flying the weekend after July 4th because our plans are on the 4th/5th and we're a bit vacationed out from June and our next one in August. It's also a 3-day for 2x pay and that's all I have on my July schedule lol. It's worth mentioning that my frau is a powerful income earner, so it takes a big stress off me in executing my plan. If I have a short month, it's not going to be a big issue for me. I know some may not be willing to take that risk, but if you're in the check of the month club, it's probably no problem. That said, I've never come up short unless it's by choice.

Have you drilled down into the more time at home by comparing TAFB? If your airline allows, I'd check the schedules of people around your seniority at the end of the month to see what they're really doing. If able, go back an entire year to get the full picture. If you just want to bid your schedule, fly it and go home, then ya I'd go try WB life for a while. But at 15%, if you have some flexibility, you generally have lots of options available to increase your QOL/pay/time at home. This month I worked 12 days with 4 nights away and blocked 32 hours. My TAFB isn't much more than a single 6-day WB trip I used to fly, not to mention my nights away is far less. My WB schedule usually was two of those 6-days or on reserve I usually got a 6-day and a 3-day or three or four 3/4-days. Obviously the longer drive/more frequent trips to the airport would have to be taken into account, but it's something to consider if you don't care for the drive. 15% provides control over your schedule/life that is hard to beat, especially since you'd be so junior on a WB.

What standard is that, AFR 35-10? You could probably get a copy of that on your way to the cash cage in CBPO! 🤣 It's been said by every generation ever.

This! I was recently asked to be a LCA. You need 1,000 hours as a DAL Captain...after just over 2 years, I'm just about to break 500 block hours as Captain, so I have a couple years to go. I only like to do day turns so they'd have to be ok with me teaching that. I'm also a habitual show at 35 min prior to push guy, so that doesn't work well with teaching. But the biggest reason is that we only pay LCA pay on the block flown while teaching. Pay it on my entire months guarantee/credit, whether I'm teaching or not, and I'll think about it. Until then, I'll just continue to teach them how to exploit the contract to their gain, that's much more fun to talk about anyway.

Woah, hope that's fake news. If true...have fun with the sex in prison! Sadly, the RUMINT appears to have been correct. Choked his wife and one of the kids after threatening one of the kids with a knife. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-commander-arrest/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2rHg1JhqYYayGPFOzdEIxjXRb-krMCQ0OEZc0p-wWhrmG90vrdSqCEZDE_aem_PwOT72aP4x2wwD8QDmDK6Q

I'll echo the above. I'm a fortunate 2014 hire and so far in my career, I've made it to 55% as a 737 FO, 92% as a 330 FO, 8% as a 717 FO and now 20% as a 717 Captain. The best QOL and money I've made at the company is from the 717 (even as a FO), all of it attributed to my seniority in seat. I get all the vacations I want, the trips I want and days off I want. I have no problem making plans 9 months out because if it's not vacation, I'll get the days off no problem. Being senior in seat also allows me to have nearly complete control of my schedule. I've already dropped, swapped and traded my entire July schedule away. So right now I have nothing on my schedule and will just pick up easy/short turns (DTW-GRR-DTW being the holy grail) or trips that are one leg out at night with one leg home in the morning. I'm only able to do this because of being senior in seat (and live within an hour of base). Get senior and stay senior, even if it means staying a FO. Chase the QOL and this job is pretty dang incredible. I'm considering bidding back to 320FO because I'd be 5% in seat and hold a schedule of high time day turns. Day for day, high time turns as a 320FO pays better than 717Capt. Even without that, I'd probably make more in that seat anyway.

Hearing rumbles Delta is stopping classes for a while as well. It was bound to happen sooner or later. We have something like 20% more pilots than we did before rona, with close to the same flying hours. Couple that with the Boeing fiasco and Bus engine issues, it makes sense. You don't need pilots for planes you don't have, or can't fly. With ~500 retirements/yr, that will help mitigate any furloughs. Furlough is extremely expensive in both money and training turmoil. I'm not saying it's not the start of something bigger, but I don't think it's time to pull the fire alarm yet. I remember circa 2016ish, when we stopped classes for a short while, the guys came out of the woodwork to scream fire. I guess eventually they'll be right. That said, I flew with a FO recently who left AD a few months ago with no Guard gig. While I certainly respect the clean break, I cautioned him at being a recent hire with few backup plans. Plenty of AOC gigs out there that require little commitment, but provides a nice insurance policy. I didn't feel comfortable leaving until I was ~60% on the list. It turned out that I was much better than that, but I certainly wouldn't want to he sub-75% without a backup plan.

Too soon.

Real estate professional. Check that box and your deductions add up fast. A buddy is a 320 Captain with 30+ properties...his effective tax rate is eye watering.

If I remember correctly, the one that crashed at NFW was an AF guy as well. For his sake, hope it's not the same guy. 1 ejection per career is bad enough.

Such a garden spot with plenty of hotels and a location with super easy access. Makes sense they pick this ROW...

Springer Johnson is spot on! If the weather is nice tomorrow, I'll be stopping by the airport on my way from my airline trip, to go bounce around some local grass strips.

I bid reserve most of the year and drop days so as to only be available on 1 or 2 days stretches. It's just getting harder to drop days and the trips are generally shit as of late. So when I know I'll be used a lot on reserve (summer), I'd rather just pick my poison, or have the option to dump my trips and pick up broken up trips that are way better than bid packet trips. If you're talking when I was WB, I was junior 10% and got used quite a bit on reserve. I actually have less TAFB and more nights in my own bed on a NB than I did as a WB guy.

Everything becomes just a job, not everything is as cool as flying. I spent lots of time not flying in the military and nearly 100% of the time I did not enjoy those duties. However, the flying I got to do was so fun/rewarding that it offset the mundane non-flying tasks for most of my career. Eventually the sting of those non-flying duties, paired with being gone (TDYs/Deployments), ever changing tactics/systems, it no longer offset it for me. This is when I knew it was time to retire. Do I wish I could still go hop in the jet and fly a High Aspect BFM ride, you betcha...do I miss all the other BS, not a chance. I would 100% say go for it, I can't imagine you'd ever regret it.

Lots of rumors on this one, with no real solid evidence. It's going to suck for this girl if it turns out to be false, because her name has already been drug through the mud. Like the accused rapists that turned out to be innocent and just a victim of a scorned chick, it's really hard to unring that bell.

Looks like they voted to not allow any amendments to the FAA authorization bill, so it's done for now. Lol, I remember someone in DAL leadership saying we were now going to be a boutique airline of about 7,000 pilots. Last I checked, we're over 17,000. Obviously uncle sugar bailing us out helped that, but it's just more proof they really don't have a clue about how it will all end up. I certainly wouldn't expect the government to save us like they did during CV19. Take out all the Boeing/Airbus issues and I doubt we're stopping hiring like we're seeing right now. On the plus side, it sounds like age 67 is dead for now, so that will certainly soften the blow of any furloughs. As always, make sure you're in a seat that you're willing to be stagnated in for quite a while. Doors can close anytime.

Awesome! I retired last summer at just over 22 years (DSG) and I haven't missed it at all. The amount of free time I now have is unreal. Congrats and best of luck in your next chapter!

Late to the party. I got my initial FC1 (circa 2005) with a waiver for GERD. The waiver required an upper endoscopy every 3-5 years to keep tabs on my condition. Nearly every time required a dilatation and they'd take a biopsy. They actually ended up "retiring" my waiver even though I was "borderline" for eosinophilic esophagitis. We had a Guardsman Flight Doc who was a DO that was head of his department a local college hospital system. He was the DO who did my last 3 scopes. I was never actually diagnosed me with EE, but he said I'm headed that way. FWIW, he wasn't too concerned with a possible EE diagnosis. Hope it's a non-issue for you, but based on my experience, I'd thinks brwwg&b is probably on point.